Friday, June 26, 2009

Click On Images To Enlarge Booth Tarkington had three bookplates that I am aware of.The one below was designed by Jack Stark

The one below was designed by Anna Hasselman

Here are some links that should be of interest :

Fellow collector Richard Schimmelpfeng has put together an impressive list of duplicate bookplate books which are for sale . Many items on the list are priced at $15.00 plus postage. If you contact him he will send you the complete list. His email is Crwalker69@hotmail.com

Fellow collector Jim Lewis sent me this link to the digital bookplate collection at Winterthur.

In doing my research for this posting I stumbled upon an interesting group of blogs all about the golden years of Hollywood. I contacted Cliff Aliperti and asked him to tell me a bit more about his blogs. Here is what he had to say:

VintageMeld was conceived as my "home base" of operations, where I could share information about the items I handle for sale, ( movie collectibles and magazine back issues). It is a labor of love , a cross between a business and my personal interests.I've also begun soliciting information from my customers, and the general public at www.vintagemeld.com/share-your-collection/about how they display their collections. This is a question I'm often asked about magazines.My first site, Http://www.things-and-other-stuff.com/

, is about vintage movie cards, collectibles, and the classic film stars themselves. I have a couple of excellent freelance writers, Tammy Stone and Susan M. Kelly, who have been with me since 2002. They submit well researched articles about the stars and I put together the "Photo ID Guides" which are photo checklists of items I've handled. My Collecting Old Magazines site

is where I share the contents of the magazines I list for sale for purposes of research. If you are looking for an article about a specific subject or by a certain author, just search the magwiki and hopefully you'll find an old magazine title to hunt down.Last but not least I have a fan site dedicated to the now obscure 1930's and 40's film star Warren William

Sunday, June 07, 2009

For those of you fellow bookplate junkies who are experiencing profound bookplate withdrawal here is an affordable fix. I am selling some scarce bookplates from the libraries of famous people. Here is a link to my current Ebay listings:

I just read an interesting article about blogging and bloggers on page one of the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times (6/7/2009). This paragraph was of special interest :

" According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs , only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days.That translates to 95 percent of of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web , where they become public remnants of a dream-or at least an ambition - unfulfilled."

The article got me thinking about my own blog aspirations . It seems I have none . That is probably why I look forward to this weekly conversation with all of you. . I get about 100 hits per day from Google and various blog links plus another 100 per week from Feedburner .I suppose I do have one goal which is to keep the audience growing.